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Agreement between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in which the two plotted to divide Poland between them?
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Nonaggression Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact)
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Germany's military strategy of "lightning war"
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blitzkrieg
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A system of fortifications along France's border with Germany (phony war)
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Maginot line
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French port city near the Belgian border from which a fleet of British ships and civilian craft evacuated trapped soldiers in 1940
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Dunkirk
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French general who organized the Free French military forces to fight the Nazis
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Charles de Gaulle
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British prime minister during WWII
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Winston Churchill
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Name for Germany's air force
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Lutwaffe
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1941 battle that demonstrated that Hitler's attacks could be blocked
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Battle of Britain
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Commander of Hitler's crack German tank force, the Afrika Corps
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Erwin Rommel(Desert Fox)
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Joint declaration issued by Roosevelt and Churchill that upheld free trade among nations and the people's right to choose their own government
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Atlantic Charter
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The American commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific during WWII was ?
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Douglas MacArthur
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After WWII former Nazi leaders faced charges of waging a war of aggression and committing crimes against humanity?
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Nuremburg Trials
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The American general who served as commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII was?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The German air attacks on Britain's air force and cities that lasted from the summer of 1940 until May 10, 1941 is known as?
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Battle of Britain
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The first day of the invasion of Normandy in WWII is known as ?
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D-Day
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The battle that brought the war in Europe to a quick end was the?
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Battle of Bulge
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The process of disbanding a country's armed forces is called?
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demilitarization
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The short battle that turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies in the Pacific was the ?
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Battle of Midway
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Give in to the aggressor to keep peace?
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appeasement
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Avoid getting in another country's affair?
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isolationism
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Sitting war
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sitzkrieg
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Cutoff supplies to trade/ refused to trade?
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sanctions
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German airforce
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Luftwaffe
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Division of a country?
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Partisans
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Camps equip with huge gas chambers that killed up to 6,000 people a day?
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death camps
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Put the jews in to work ?
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concentration camps
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S.S. group arranged the killings of the Jews?
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Einsatzgruppen
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People worked with Germans in France?
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collaborators
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Japanese suicide pilots?
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kamikaze
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Mass killing of over 6 million jews and others ?
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Holocaust
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Camps used to segregate a certain group of people?
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internment
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Hitler's program of killing Jews?
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Final Solution
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Germany, italy, and japan
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axis powers
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Britain, Soviet Union, U.S.
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Allied powers
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Prime minister of G.B. before WWII, munich pact , and policy of appeasement with Hitler?
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Neville Chamberlain
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Leader of the Axis Powers/Dictator of Germany, involved with all acts of German aggression on the European and African Fronts, driving force behind all of Germany's aggressive actions?
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Adolf Hitler
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New prime minister of G.B., Atlantic Charter, blocked Hitler's attack in the Battle of Britain?
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Winston Churchill
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Dictator of Soviet Union WWII, Battle of Britain, attacked British soldiers pushing 60 miles inside N. Africa, allied with Hitler to fight against France and G.B.?
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Benito Mussolini
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Dictator of Soviet Union WWII, signed nonaggression pact with Hitler (hitler invades soviet union), joined allies in defeating Hitler?
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Joseph Stalin
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French general, set up a government in exile in London, committed all energy to reconquering France, called on the people after 9 months of France to join him?
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Charles de Gaulle
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Unruly leader of "warlords" China, helped defeat japanese to become Allies, supported by U.S.?
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Prime minister during Pearl Harbor attack in Japan, planned attack of pearl harbor, remove americans from the Pacific with Pearl Harbor?
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Hideki Tojo
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German leader of the tank force , forced British forces to retreat east to Tobruks, Libya, pushed the Britain back in N. Africa "Desert Fox" trying to get Suez Canal?
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Erwin Rommel
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Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe, leader of D-Day invasion, accept unconditional surrender from Germany?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Commander of Allied forces in Pacific, leader of Battle of Guadalcanal, used island- hopping against Japan?
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Douglas MacArthur
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President of U.S. during majority of WWII, signed Atlantic Charter with churchill, cut off all oil supplies to Japan?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President of U.S. after Roosevelt die, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, approved the use of the atomic bomb?
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Harry S. Truman
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What did each leader gain from signing the nonaggression pact?
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Piece of Poland, and removed a threat attacking Germany
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What strategy did Hitler use to conquer Poland?
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blitzkrieg
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What was Hitler's plan for conquering France?
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Went through the netherlands, Belgium, Ardenne Forest with tanks
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What happened at Dunkirk?
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French trapped to sea and English saved them
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